Giorgio Agamben - Philosophical Works (32 books)

GIORGIO AGAMBEN (b. 1942) is one of the leading figures in modern Italian philosophy and radical political theory. His unique readings of literature, literary theory, continental philosophy, political thought, religious studies, and art have made him one of the most innovative thinkers of our time, and his work has had a deep impact on contemporary scholarship across a number of disciplines.

Much of his work since the 1980s can be viewed as leading up to the so-called Homo Sacer ("sacred man") project that properly begins with HOMO SACER: SOVEREIGN POWER AND BARE LIFE (1995). This project, currently numbering 9 volumes, is a series of ongoing and interconnected investigations of staggering ambition and scope investigating the deepest foundations of every major Western institution and discourse. Each volume takes a seemingly obscure and outdated issue as its starting point — an enigmatic figure in Roman law, or medieval debates about God's management of creation, or theories about the origin of the oath — but is always guided by questions with urgent contemporary relevance.

While his overall analysis in the project is highly critical of the contemporary state and its apparatuses, his conclusion is not one of complete despair. Rather, the means for overcoming the aporias of the modern democratic state lie precisely within the heart of the crisis itself. To the project of such an overcoming, he gives the name “coming politics,” a politics of pure means, an idea first developed in THE COMING COMMUNITY (1990) and MEANS WITHOUT END (1996). Such a new politics would require the formulation of a new form of life, wherein bare life is not separable as a political subject and what is at stake is the experience of community itself.


The following books are in PDF format unless otherwise indicated:

* Adventure, The (MIT, 2018). Lorenzo Chiesa, trans.
* "Art, Inactivity, Politics" (Fundação de Serralves, 2008). Rui Mota Cardoso, ed.
* Church and the Kingdom (Seagull Books, 2012). Leland de la Durantaye, trans.
* Coming Community (Minnesota, 1993). Michael Hardt, trans.
* End of the Poem, The (Stanford, 1999). Daniel Heller-Roazen, trans. -- ePUB
* Fire and the Tale, The (Stanford, 2017). Lorenzo Chiesa, trans. -- PDF + ePUB
* Highest Poverty, The (Stanford, 2013). Adam Kotsko, trans. -- PDF + ePUB
* Homo Sacer: Sovereign Power & Bare Life (Stanford, 1998) -- PDF + ePUB
* Idea of Prose, The (SUNY, 1995). Michael Sullivan and Sam Whitsitt, trans.
* Infancy and History: Essays on Destruction of Experience (Verso, 1993). Heron, trans.
* Karman: A Brief Treatise on Action, Guilt & Gesture (Stanford, 2018). Kotsko, trans.
* Kingdom and the Glory, The (Stanford, 2011). Lorenzo Chiesa, trans. -- PDF + ePUB
* Language and Death (Minnesota, 1991). Karen E. Pinkus and Michael Hardt, trans.
* Man Without Content, The (Stanford, 1999). Georgia Albert, trans. -- PDF + ePUB
* Means without End (Minnesota, 2000). Binetti and Casarino, trans. -- PDF + ePUB
* Omnibus Homo Sacer (Stanford, 2017). 9 volumes in one.
* Open, The: Man and Animal (Stanford, 2004). Kevin Attell, trans. -- PDF + ePUB
* Opus Dei: An Archeology of Duty (Stanford, 2013). Kotsko, trans. -- PDF + ePUB
* Pilate and Jesus (Stanford, 2015). Adam Kotsko, trans. -- PDF + ePUB
* Potentialities: Collected Essays (Stanford, 1999). Daniel Heller-Roazen, trans.
* Profanations (Zone Books, 2007). Jeff Fort, trans.
* Remnants of Auschwitz (Zone Books, 1999). Daniel Heller-Roazen, trans.
* Sacrament of Language, The (Stanford, 2011). Adam Kotsko, trans.
* Signature of All Things, The (Zone Books, 2009). D'Isanto and Attell, trans.
* Stanzas: Word & Phantasm in Western Culture (Minnesota, 1993). Martinez, trans.
* Stasis (Stanford, 2015). Heron, trans. -- PDF + ePUB
* State of Exception (Chicago, 2005). Kevin Attell, trans. -- PDF + ePUB
* Taste (Seagull, 2017). Cooper Francis, trans.
* Time That Remains, The (Stanford, 2005). Patricia Dailey, trans.
* Unspeakable Girl, The (Seagull, 2014). Durantaye and Wyman, trans.
* Use of Bodies, The (Stanford, 2016). Adam Kotsko, trans. -- PDF + ePUB
* What is an Apparatus & Other Essays (Stanford, 2009). Kishik and Pedatella, trans.
* What Is Philosophy? (Stanford, 2017). Lorenzo Chiesa, trans.

____________________________________________________________________________


PLEASE HELP TO SEED! If you like these books and want others to have access to them, please help to seed for as long as you can. The more you seed, the longer the torrent will live, and the easier it will be for me to upload new content. Thank you!